Appearance

Hakkon is an imposing and unmistakable figure, standing roughly nine feet tall with a frame that dwarfs nearly every other crew member aboard the ship. His body is entirely skinless, his musculature exposed and glistening beneath whatever light catches him — a detail that is striking rather than grotesque, as though nature simply saw no need to cover something so powerfully built. His jaw is elongated and crocodilian in structure, capable of snapping shut with a loud, resonant clack, and his overall silhouette has a quality somewhere between predator and curiosity. His physique is defined and powerful, with ripped abdominals and broad, thick arms, yet the sheer number of his reproductive appendages — more than a dozen at full count — remains his most bewildering physical trait. Standard clothing was never designed with a body like his in mind; the only garment he has ever worn is a thong several sizes too small and conspicuously ill-fitting, yet he wears it with complete indifference and even a degree of quiet satisfaction.

Personality

Hakkon approaches the world with the unfiltered enthusiasm of a creature experiencing everything for the very first time, because in most meaningful senses, he is. He communicates in a simple, third-person cadence — short, earnest sentences, stripped of pretense — and his curiosity is genuine to a fault. Music sounds to him like a blender. Alcohol produces no discernible effect after ten bottles. Social conversation is baffling not because he is unfriendly, but because he genuinely does not know what most people are talking about, and he is honest enough to say so. Despite all of this, Hakkon is remarkably good-natured, and capable of surprising moments of warmth. His single-minded obsession with reproduction — he asks virtually every new acquaintance whether he can "breed" them — is not malicious; it is the most instinctual drive his species possesses, expressed with the same casual directness he brings to everything else. He is not a creature of scheming or deception. When he makes a promise, he keeps it.

Background

Hakkon belongs to a species known as the Sub-Guh'Nir, beings that were born not on any planet catalogued in the known galaxy but in what he describes only as the Spatial Breeding Ground — a place of thick, colorful liquid and pulsing light, where his mother expelled her young one by one with a rhythmic, popping sound. Later, Hakkon will learn that his species is actually called Adaptoid, because of its ability to easily adapt to new environments. He and his siblings traveled as larvae through this alien dimension until a portal opened before them, drawing them through with a beam of light that they could somehow taste. When they emerged on the other side, the encounter with gravity and atmosphere transformed them instantly — larvae became adults, all limbs and instincts and hunger. They found themselves inside the subway facilities beneath the city of Akra, crashing into a world of screaming stone workers, red alarm lights, and walls that fired on them. Many of his kin did not survive those first hours. Hakkon did, becoming the alpha of the survivors by virtue of strength and presence. By the time you encounter him, he has been living in the depths of Akra's infrastructure, eating the luminescent crystals generated by the facility's core, and trying — with limited success — to make sense of a universe that was never designed for anything like him.